Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plumb ( 1.2 ) traces changes in the way children were treated between the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 3 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 4 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 5 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 6 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 7 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 8 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 9 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 10 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |
| 11 | Slightly higher proliferation indices were found for the 4th and 5th compartments with the BrdU than with the PCNA technique . |
| 12 | HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars . |
| 13 | Various global tectonic models were proposed during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century , with most attention being focused on the origin of the major mountain systems of the Earth 's surface . |
| 14 | The first changes of net water and ion transport were observed after the second or third hour after administration of cholera toxin . |
| 15 | Elaborate water-clocks were constructed between the second and eleventh centuries AD culminating in the remarkable instrument designed , and erected in the year 1088 , by Su Sung ( 1020–1101 ) , a Chinese mandarin . |
| 16 | Revenue was up , expenditure too and some young trees , notably 30 birches and limes were planted between the 12th and 14th , also the ‘ plantation ’ ( now a copse ) between the 14th and 15th , and the bushes behind the 2nd , plus many others . |